Stock-display case.



G H. BURLINGAME.

STOCK DISPLAY CASE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1911. 1,014,947, Patented Jan. 16, 1912.

GEORGE H. BURLINGAME, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

STOCK-DISPLAY CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16,1912.

Application filed. May 25, 1911. Serial No. 625,423.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. BURLIN- GAME, citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city and county of San Francisco and.

. provide a display apparatus which can be readily adjustedtelescopically to provide passageway in stores where goods are displayedin large quantities and where space is valuable; to provide a displaycase of neat and attractive appearance, and which is so designed thatthe material or stock to be displayed is protected from access ofinsects and from dust, and which at the same time may be readily reachedby the salesman or merchant; and to provide a display cabinet adapted tocontain or support numerous receptacles or containers in which may beheld a variety of materials to be sold; and to provide an individual orseparate lid or cover for each of the stock-containing receptacles sothat access may be had to any one'receptacle desired without exposingthe other containers.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combinationof parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingreference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure .1 is aperspective view of the display cabinet in extended position. Fig. 2 isa vertical, transverse section through the cabinet. Fig. 3 is anunderneath plan view of one of the receptacle covers.

One of the salient features of the present invention'is to design andprovide a stock display cabinet whereon may be deposited numerousreceptacles for containing the stock to be displayed, and which cabinetis formed in telescopic sections so that they may be closedsufiiciently, when necessary, to provide additional floor space.

At present inthe great cities, store space is extremely valuable, and adevice which can be readily adjusted and arranged for the effectivedisplaying of a large volume of stock and which can at the same time beadjusted so as to reduce the floor area occupied by the cabinet is anecessity. To that end Ihave provided a display cabinet having aplurality of telescopic frames, as 2 and 3, which may be telescoped ornested so as to occupy a minimum amount of space when the stand is notin use, as when the store is closed, or when it is desired totemporarily increase the area of the aisle or passageway in front of thecase. For the purpose of enabling a very large volume of stock to becontained and displayed in the cabinet,there is provided on the cabinetsection 2 a suitable shelf 4 of appropriate length and width. Upon thisshelf is disposed a plurality of crooks or other appropriate containersof such proportions as to most efiectively display the goods containedtherein. The cabinet section 2 has in the present instance, corner posts6, although it is understood that the artistic design of the cabinet canbe varied to suit. A back piece 7 is provided in the section 2, adjacentto which there is secured a horizontal bracket or strip 8, elevatedsufliciently high above the shelf 4 to permit the insertion of thecontainers or receptacles 5 upon the shelf l. The upper edge of eachcontainer 5 is approximately in the plane of the edge of a rail 9forming a part of the section 2. For the purpose of protecting theopen-topped containers 5 from dust, and for allowing the circulation ofair in the containers, I have provided a plurality of covers or lids 10,one for each container. These covers are hinged or otherwiseappropriately connected, as at 11, to the hinge plate 8 of the stand 2.The height of the shelf 4 above the floor is designed to be suflicientto permit the adjustable case section 3 to be telescoped or nestedalmost entirely within the cabinet section 2 below the shelf. Themovable section 3 is provided with a shelf 12 of suitable area andproportion, upon which may be deposited other receptacles 5 similar tothe ones deposited upon the shelf 4. The receptacles in the movablesection 3 are provided with adjustable covers or lids .13, hinged to aplate or bar 14 forming a portion of the top of the section 3.

The adjustable cabinet section 3 is provided with casters 15 in thefront frame portion. These casters are adapted to slide upon the floor.Below the shelf 12 is provided a bottom board 16, which may rest uponguiding ribs or rails 17 attached to the lower portion of the stationarycabinet section 2, and which rails extend transversely across thesection 2 and are adapted to support or partially support the adjustablesection 3. There may be provided upon the rear men'lbers of the section3, anti-friction devices, as casters 18, which travel upon thesupporting rail 17 of the section 2 so that the telescopic section 3 maybe adjusted upon the section 2 with comparative case.

It is desirable that the cabinet be designed so that the superposedcontainers 5, upon their respective shelves land 12, will be within easyreach of the salesman or merchant so that he will not have to bend extremely when dishing up stock from the con tainers. In so designing thecabinet, the shelf 12 on the adjustable section 3 is sufficiently highfrom the floor to provide a space 19 above the bottom 16 of theadjustable member 3. I have utilized this otherwise wasted space 19 bymounting a drawer 20 in the front panel 21 of the case section 3, inwhich drawer may be contained paper cartons or other devices in whichthe material to be dispensed may be delivered to the customer.

By providing a downwardly projecting leg 22 adjacent to the central rearportion of the movable section 3 and mounting in the leg 22 a caster 28,the telescopic section 3 may be entirely removed from the cabinet andwill be SQl'f-SUIJPOIflHg. lVhen I provide this third leg 22 upon thesection 3, the weight of the section will be taken off of the casters 23so long as the casters 18 travel upon the rail 17 of the stationarysection 2.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided a unique and advantageousdisplay cabinet, having a plurality of shelves carrying suitablecontainers which may be arranged in superposed relation by the nestingof the two sections. and which may be arranged in echelon by drawing thesection 3 out of the section 2, thus very effectively displaying thegoods and at the same time enabling the merchant to easily telescope thecabinet when he desires the floor space which is used by the opened orexpanded cabinet.

Any appropriately designed lid or cover 10 may be employed, and I havefound that by using a suitable sash or frame of sufficient proportion tosubstantially cover the receptacle or container 5 and attaching to thelower corners of the frame of each lid 10 triangular screened pieces, as21, which are adapted to rest upon the upper edge of v a container 5,that a circulation of air may be had mto the container and dust may beprevented from settling 1n the open-topped containers by mounting asuitable transparent material, as glass, in the lid. The transparentportion is spaced sufficiently above the attached screen piece 24: toallow ample air space. Since pickles and other materials containingacids and sometimes salt goods are displayed in the containers 5, it isdesirable that the ventilator sections or screens 2% be made of somematerial which is substantially acid-proof, and I have found thatperforated celluloid answers the purpose fully, and, being very thin andlight, is eminently satisfactory. The lids 10 are provided with cushionsor rubber buttons 10 which rest on the frame when the crock .is

removed, thus preventing the glass from being broken by a fall of thelid. Shallow crooks are employed because at each agitation of theircontents the solids are stirred and submerged; this would not be thecase with deep crooks.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. In a display case, a main stationary stand having corner postsconnected by a shelf, removable containers, a horizontal rail connectingthe front post, a horizontal bar, individual covers for said containershinged to said bar and when lowered, resting upon said containers,transverse cleats at each end of the stand, a supplemental removableframe having a shelf supporting removable containers, covers therefor,corner posts at the front end of the frame, rollers slidable on saidcleats when the frame is telescoped.

2. In a display case, a main stationary stand having corner postsconnected by a shelf, removable containers, a horizontal rail connectingthe front post, a horizontal bar, individual covers for said containershinged to said bar and when lowered resting upon said containers,transverse cleats at each end of the stand, a supplemental removableframe having a shelf supporting removable containers, covers therefor,corner posts at the front end of the frame, rollers slidable on saidcleats when the frame is telescoped, and a leg at the center of the backof said frame to support the same when disassembled from the stand.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

GEORGE E. BURLINGAME. lVitnesses JOHN H. HERRING, F. E. llIAXNARD.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. O.

